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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2700
Re: Server issues
Previously, on my PC at home and my phone at work, whenever I viewed a thread here, the cookies (umm, that internet whatchamacallit) and not 25 Apr 2024 topically not Anzac biscuit ) would un-orange the thread. Lately, when I view a thread here, it's still in orange, unless I log out and view it ag...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2700
Re: Server issues
Previously, on my PC at home and my phone at work, whenever I viewed a thread here, the cookies (umm, that internet whatchamacallit) and not 25 Apr 2024 topically not Anzac biscuit ) would un-orange the thread. Lately, when I view a thread here, it's still in orange, unless I log out and view it aga...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:35 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: 100 condoms = 1 tampon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 164
Re: 100 condoms = 1 tampon
The Kraken at his best... But if you're gonna go with "bananas" for condom machines, I'd expect a more off-color metaphor. t A taco may be what you're looking for. In 2019 you said "He's the Eric Corbett of Wikipedia criticism: generates good content but scares away the normies with his bile." Krak...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:18 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419917
Australia - hero or entirely peopled with criminals?
On This Day in 1824, American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud. Did he, though? The claims of fraud extend to almost everything Morrell wrote about the voyage, down to the most basic details of time and place. In the article, the OTD fact...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6017
Blue eye-liner - hero or despicable scum?
I was going to leave this as a single reply in the Crap articles thread, but before I knew it I had a whole topic on my hands. Enjoy! ✂️✂️✂️✂️ Princess Anne is a trooper, literally, but it doesn't look like she will be replaced. Certainly not on a like for like basis. </✂️✂️✂️✂️> Anne - born into a...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Eostrix, current RfA candidate, ArbComBlocked as a sock of Icewhiz
- Replies: 312
- Views: 20146
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:36 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: It's the Freakiest Show - Perennial SpaceX Debate
- Replies: 13
- Views: 652
Re: It's the Freakiest Show - Perennial blue eye-liner debate
I recall it being hyped as the next big retro thing as far back as 2008.
For context:
For context:
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Redirect loops on Firefox
- Replies: 13
- Views: 684
Re: Redirect loops on Firefox
Vigilant, is your F5 friend electric?
Mods: please feel to delete this post. I'm just having a bit of fun here.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: "Conflict of interest management"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 836
"Or'm howding aat my carp, arnly you can fiw it arp"
<✂> about 800 words </✂> Wow, that's a... lot of free time you appear to have on your hands there. Anyhoo, don't you love it when you come across a little gem that you completely missed at the time? Written by Paul Kelly, who is pretty much Australia's Bob Dylan, and sung by the utterly delightful ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1714
Johnny, Joey, Dee D'oc D'oc Ramone - Everybody needs love and adventure
... ... ... at least Belgium ... [youtube]YouTube Video[/youtube] The accent! You'll have to explain this to us. M Bertrand's French - français Wallon? - sounds pretty much like standard French to me. Admittedly, my very sparse knowledge of the difference between Langues d'oïl and Langues d'oc is f...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1714
I wanna be debated
Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:29 am... at least Belgium ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: ANI regulars
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3124
Re: ANI regulars
There would also appear to me something else of note here: relatively new editors who regularly post at teh Dramah Board, then get a slippering on their talk pages. OK, here's the last 1,000 posts to WP:AN/I: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incident...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1714
Re: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
This is probably as good a time as any to take up where I left off in 2015. https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6389&p=138934&hilit=Korean#p138934 <clears throat> The China of classical antiquity invented, inter alia, writing, paper and public service graduate entry programs*, whic...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Favorite Sentences in Wikipedia
- Replies: 9
- Views: 777
Re: Favorite Sentences in Wikipedia (and punchlines that make saying the rest of the joke redundant)
I am convinced there are several American “old country” foods that show up at various holidays mostly to remind of us why we left. Lutefisk comes quickly to mind. Winkles The Sven and Ole jokebook wrote: The lutefisk got rid of the racoons all right, but now we've got a family of Norwegians living ...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:34 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494903
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
Quite the contrary: it would appear that he is pretty tightly secured.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:25 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Unflattering portraits
- Replies: 229
- Views: 89706
Re: Unflattering portraits
Was going to make a joke about the Russian crooner with the bad picture. Something like 'the wish.com version of Wayne Newton.' Until I saw this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Wayne_Newton_2023.jpg Looks like Mickey Rourke in a Wayne Newton biopic. Can't link to the image itself...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 8:50 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Fictional flags
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1636
Re: Fictional flags
Ok, sure. I hereby declare myself Emperor Grump the First, Guardian of the Galactic Core, Cazique of the Magellanic Clouds, and Pastafarian Prelate of the Interstellar Void. Bow down before me, peasants... ... ... .... * Well, surely there should be a competition to design a flag for the Grumpian E...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
Re: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
Ritchie333, I would certainly vote for you over Sandstein. Not that that's saying much... but I value your judgment. Maybe WIkipedia could have an Athenian-style ostracism vote each year. I'm Spartacus and so is my wife! Actually I easily passed an RFA a long time ago, and a process server served m...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Personal touches
- Replies: 194
- Views: 52671
Re: Personal wombats
Stranger Pond (T-H-L)
A wombat enjoying the sunset on Stranger Pond.
Been there since 2007. (The picture+caption, not the wombat, that is.)
Been there since 2007. (The picture+caption, not the wombat, that is.)
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419917
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Tonstant Wiki-er fwowed up. えぇ?何これ? Learn your Parker, you ignorant heathen. I see. Not a part of the cultural lexicon in the places in which I find myself to have been. greyed.out.fields wrote, "erm.. how do I link this (https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=12974&p=326489&hilit=To...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 1:16 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519162
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:52 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419917
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
DYK ... ... ... that Dustin Wolf (pictured) has been named his league ' s goaltender of the year the last four years in a row? Sounds like he won the award in the same league four times in a row, right? Nope. First he won the Del Wilson Trophy twice in the Western Hockey League which is a junior le...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:56 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419917
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
... You're right about "Let them eat cake", "Homo homini lupus" does have an article with 6,968 (place 9). Here is the full list: ... 12) No stand-alone article -- Martin Luther: Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen. ... Would a redirect to Luther in Worms (Meinardus) count? ...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:54 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The autobiographers
- Replies: 98
- Views: 27543
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:39 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Vandalizing Wikipedia for Research
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1612
Re: Vandalizing Wikipedia for Research
... ... Apparently, back in 2008, nobody had Immanuel Kant watchlisted. The Vienna Circle was also a tightly-knit social group. They regularly met to play cards, including a bridge-like game of their own devising called Whistenschaft. :B' A pastime recalled fondly by Friedrich Nietzsche in his memo...
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:19 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Naive ideas to improve en-wp
- Replies: 160
- Views: 17619
Re: Naive ideas to improve en-wp
OK, so I may be a contrarian against contrarians:
Remain in Light (T-H-L) for all its Eno and Afrobeat, is arguably not the Heads best album. That would be Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album) (T-H-L) where they moved all their influences to approachable pop in an undeniably art rock record.
Remain in Light (T-H-L) for all its Eno and Afrobeat, is arguably not the Heads best album. That would be Speaking in Tongues (Talking Heads album) (T-H-L) where they moved all their influences to approachable pop in an undeniably art rock record.
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: AI moderation
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4322
Re: AI moderation
What about an AbdBot? Ishmael' s mention of the padlocks on the sharks on swimming around the wreck of the Pequod is quite possibly a reference to when the Queen of the Night puts a lock on Papageno's mouth to stop him lying about, well, various stuff. As for AhabBOT - spoiler alert - everyone dies...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 12:42 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: AI moderation
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4322
Re: AI moderation
If you’re really trying to execute malicious code, you might try an escape character first. But I’d rather try to escalate my privileges. An escape character? Is this like when Melville's character Ishmael bobs to the surface of wreck of the Pequod on Queequeg's coffin, and quotes the three instanc...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617390
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
from Tidal force As expected, the table below shows that the distance from the Moon to the Earth, is the same as the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Back when Ming was a naive young Mingling, Ming would have assumed it unnecessary to spell this out. Recent history has shown otherwise. I guess ...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:12 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617390
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
List of Telecaster players#A-E (T-H-L)
Emerging in the mid 1960s with the Yardbirds, Beck proved that a ragged Fender Esquire could moan like a fuzzed-out violin. His lines in “Heart Full of Soul” and “Evil Hearted You” defined psychedelic guitar.
MOS:PEACOCK (T-H-L) much?
Emerging in the mid 1960s with the Yardbirds, Beck proved that a ragged Fender Esquire could moan like a fuzzed-out violin. His lines in “Heart Full of Soul” and “Evil Hearted You” defined psychedelic guitar.
MOS:PEACOCK (T-H-L) much?
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Conservative Israeli Think Tank Uses “Sock Puppets” to Skew Wikipedia
- Replies: 1
- Views: 303
Re: Conservative Israeli Think Tank Uses “Sock Puppets” to Skew Wikipedia
Hmm... Kohelet, hey?
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617390
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Unless this is about a person that physically boarded a sailing ship or saddled their horse for a quest from Tang China, any article that in includes the phrase "He began his journey" should trigger an WP:EDITFILTER and add an automatic WP:G11 tag. (For those of you who grok regular expression - and...
- Sat Jun 17, 2023 1:23 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822888
Re: Crap articles
Feast your ears: I've heard worse. Heck, I've sung worse. Including the fluffy-bunnies-and-feudalist-propaganda All Things Bright and Beautiful the C of E primary school I attended imposed on us. I really, really wanted to be a Jehovah's Witness when I was at primary school, because they didn't hav...
- Thu May 25, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Minor-attracted person
- Replies: 197
- Views: 11901
Kirk/Spock, Guns/Roses, Infinite/Jest
Hmm... the 1990s and bandanas. Well of course I've read Infinite Jest.
- Sat May 13, 2023 11:19 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Obvious paid editors are obvious
- Replies: 954
- Views: 247692
- Fri May 05, 2023 11:47 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How true is the statement that "On Wikipedia it isn't about changing anyone's mind anymore, but on removing opponents"?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3531
Re: How true is the statement that "On Wikipedia it isn't about changing anyone's mind anymore, but on removing opponent
I understand it isn't healthy, I'm just aghast that this individual has seemingly dedicated his Wikipedia career to simply annihilating everything I ever wrote, even completely removing sourced and appropriate material just because I added it to bait me into editing. Contrary to all the people sayi...
- Fri May 05, 2023 9:40 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Proposal to end appeals to Jimbo
- Replies: 134
- Views: 6757
Re: Proposal to end appeals to Jimbo
If Jimmy wants to retain some kind of theoretical veto power, there's nothing to stop him from running for ArbCom. He may have to step up his editing and community engagement a bit... :rotfl: Ex-monarchs don't run for Parliament. Well, unless it's Bulgaria. Presumably not this Bulgaria: https://sta...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 11:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How true is the statement that "On Wikipedia it isn't about changing anyone's mind anymore, but on removing opponents"?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3531
Sail to me, sail to me. Let me enfold you. Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you.
"NotReallySoroka" is currently trying to bait me into editing again by leaving articles in broken states by taking out references and rewriting things just because he wants to wind me up. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&diff=prev&oldid=1151935032, 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Die größte Lüge im Internet (Alan MacMasters)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 596
Re: Die größte Lüge im Internet (Alan MacMasters)
This no doubt bought to Herr Schtapler's mind - and to most of us, I'm sure - that scene in Tom of Finland's Aubrey Beardsley's Mozart's The Magic Flute where the queen of the night puts a lock on greyed.out.fields' everyone else here Papageno's mouth to stop him from luge ing - ahem, not that luge-...
- Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:04 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617390
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Messalina#Early life Messalina was the daughter of Domitia Lepida and her first cousin Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus. Her mother was the youngest child of the consul Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Antonia Major. Her mother's brother, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, had been the first husband of t...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:24 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How feasible is the "prohibit the behavior, not the person" approach on Wikipedia
- Replies: 9
- Views: 710
Re: How feasible is the "prohibit the behavior, not the person" approach on Wikipedia
... ... the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory" ... https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/325/699/4fc.jpg ... I was reading this thread on a "bathroom break" at work on my $80 not-particularly-smartphone, and at first thought the caption over the last picture on the backboard was "Tom of F...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:17 am
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: updates from encycloreader
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2852
Re: updates from encycloreader
OK, let me get this straight. So: Encycloreader scrapes content from, inter alia, Wikipedia, Rationalwiki and Conservapedia, right? Into one website? Those three are quite different things. * Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia * Rationalwiki is knowingly satire website, self-consciously written to...
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 10:37 am
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: updates from encycloreader
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2852
Re: updates from encycloreader
OK, let me get this straight. So: Encycloreader scrapes content from, inter alia, Wikipedia, Rationalwiki and Conservapedia, right? Into one website? Those three are quite different things. * Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia * Rationalwiki is knowingly satire website, self-consciously written to ...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 2:20 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Laura in Wikiland
- Replies: 466
- Views: 24752
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 2:18 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
- Replies: 133
- Views: 26057
Re: Using ChatGPT to write WP articles
Easily adapted for your userpage
- Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617390
Re: Wikipedia's worst keyholes
Fuse Kofun The Fuse Kofun is located on the east bank of Lake Koyama, and is a keyhole-shaped zenpō-kōen-fun (前方後円墳), which is shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above. So, this is keyhole-shaped "前方後円墳" (literally "straight front, round end burial m...
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822888
Re: Crap articles
Kagher Neiber-Shieg (T-H-L)
Quite obviously teh madeup, back in 2006.
Mentioned as real in the Literary Review of Canada (T-H-L) in 2009.
Quite obviously teh madeup, back in 2006.
Mentioned as real in the Literary Review of Canada (T-H-L) in 2009.
- Tue Dec 13, 2022 10:42 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF board adds a crypto-bro
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1988
Re: WMF board adds a crypto-bro
https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12427&p=303239 Though his Twitter account was not protected the last time he was discussed here :dubious: I think this snapshot will give the flavour. Did I miss something? Why are you bringing this up again now? What's the deal with those monke...
- Tue Dec 13, 2022 9:10 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617390
r/therewasanattempt
to attempt.
Ocean's Eleven#Production (T-H-L)
In 1987, an attempt to remake the 1960 film was attempted by David Permut...
Ocean's Eleven#Production (T-H-L)
In 1987, an attempt to remake the 1960 film was attempted by David Permut...
- Sat Dec 10, 2022 11:24 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2007
Re: Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed
Anyone? In this context "reading for the bar" is UK/Canada/New Zealand/Australia legal slang term for when a solicitor applies to become a barrister In previous times and some legal jurisdictions it was possible to qualify for practice even though one had no law degree. Such a person could work in ...